Innocence Lost

Maybe innocence isn't the word I really want, maybe arrogance is. Yep, arrogance lost, that sounds better.

The last three days have been hard on me. I mean HARD. Our computer wasn't working and I couldn't fix it.

I have taken A LOT of computer classes. Programming, networking, software.... (I know Jody might find that hard to believe since she had to help me set up my domain name :) but I have taken more than my fair share.

Usually I can fix whatever is wrong with our computer but his time I could not. I literally was banging my head on the desk for two days.

I contacted Microsoft to help me and nobody could seem to do that. They kept asking me to run a scan and then call them back. Well, whatever crazy virus had control of my computer would not let me run the scan. So, finally after a day and a half I called Microsoft back. The girl asked if it was my first time calling. I told her no that I had called and called but that NOBODY WOULD HELP ME.

**Now in case you are wondering how I got this virus, when I was taking classes one of my home programs wouldn't work when I had the anti-virus running so I disabled it. Then I never enabled it when I was done.**

Finally, she put me through to somebody and he seemed to fix the surface issues.

The computer was still slow and I still couldn't get my system restore or defrag to work. So today I ran the scan because the computer finally let me. Then I called back to Microsoft and my computer froze up so the 2.5 hours I spent running the scan were wasted.

However, the person I spoke to this time seemed to know what they were doing and fixed the problem. Now that my computer is back running at its optimal level I have done a few things..

1. Backed up 3000 pictures
2. Created a system restore point and
3. Created System Recovery DVD's

Now I can securely re-enter the blog world. Yeah!